1911] Graenicher, Records of Wisconsin Lizards. 79 



braska as the northern limit of its distribution in the Central 

 Region. It is therefore surprising to find in the seventh ( 1894) 

 and eighth (1899) editions of Jordan's Manual of Vertebrates 

 Wisconsin included in the range of the species ("Conn, to Va., 

 Wis. and Mexico"). On what authority this statement is made 

 I am unable to say, and neither Cope nor Ditmars up- 

 hold it. Hart and Gleason* have reported it from Henry 

 and Ottawa on the Illinois river. The presence of this 

 lizard as far north as Prescott (near the juncture of the 

 Mississippi and St. Croix rivers) is a further evidence of the 

 importance of the Mississippi valley as a pathway along which 

 southern forms are enabled to travel northward. The specimen 

 from Prescott has a length of six and a quarter inches ; in color 

 and markings it agrees quite well with a speecimen in the collec- 

 tion of the Milwaukee Public Museum from Gotha, Florida. 



Eumeces septcntrionalis (Baird). Black-banded skink. Ac- 

 cording to Hoy (Loc. cit. p. 423) this species is not "uncommon 

 as far north as Lake Winnebago," but no particular localities are 

 given. Higley (Loc. Cit. p. 160) gives Walworth Co., and makes 

 the additional statement, that he has examined several specimens 

 from the western part of the state. Cope (Loc. cit. p. 658) 

 informs us that "this is another species of the plains of the Central 

 region, and it ranges farther north than any species of the genus, 

 that is, to the northern part of Minnesota." Among the specimens 

 seen by Cope there are five from Minnesota: three from Fort 

 Ripley, and two from the Red river of the North. 



The writer has before him the following eight specimens, all 

 of them from the northwestern part of the state : 



I. Two young specimens from Washburn Co.. (T. 42 N.-R. 

 13 W.) from the collection of Dr. H. V. Ogden of Milwaukee. 

 They were taken by Dr. Ogden on the 5th of October, 1902, on a 

 sandy hill side under a board exposed to the sun. My thanks are 

 due to Dr. Ogden for the kind loan of the specimens for study, 

 as also for the accompanying data. 



II. Six specimens in the collection of the Public Museum of 

 Milwaukee, taken by the Museum Expedition along the S t. Croix 

 river in the summer of 1909 at the following points : 



* C. A. Hart & H. A. Gleason. Ph. D., On the Biology of the San Areas 

 of Illinois; Bull. 111. State Lab., Vol. VII, Article VII. January 1907. p. 257. 



